Anita P Barbee
Biographic Data
| ID | 649658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita P Barbee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita P |
| FAMILY NAME | Barbee |
| SIGNATURE | BARBEE A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3951-1276 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 365 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress and Burnout on Organizational Outcomes for the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Workforce
This survey study examined how secondary traumatic stress (STS), emotional exhaustion (EE), and other personal and work-related factors of 406 direct support professionals (DSPs) affected job satisfaction and turnover intentions. Regression and structural equation modeling revealed that STS was positively related to EE that was negatively related to job satisfaction and positively related to turnover intentions, thus mediating the relationship be…
Further exploration of the relationship between demographic characteristics and secondary trauma among child welfare workers
Background and purpose Child welfare workers develop secondary traumatic stress (STS) at high rates. Personal trauma, increased exposure to clients’ trauma, and inadequate social support are known to increase STS risk. However, examinations of relationships between STS and workforce demographics have produced mixed results and have rarely included large, cross-state samples. To advance understanding of caseworker experiences and recommend appropr…
Learning Science innovations in child welfare
Drawing from child welfare training, technical assistance, evaluation initiatives, prevailing scholarship, and the work of the Children’s Bureau’s Child Welfare Capacity Building Centers, this article extracts key high‐level information from the Learning Science literature and related sources on how theories and research findings are applied to the development, execution, and evaluation of training and technical assistance (T/TA) in child welfare…
Capacity building projects
This article describes a case study where quantitative data examined implementation, project focus and capacities built in state, tribal and court projects across the country. Qualitative data focused on the same information along with project outcomes. Two projects from each Child Welfare (CW) Capacity Building Center were highlighted, focusing on issues including workforce recruitment, development, and retention; continuous quality improvement …
A review of the literature on capacity building service strategies in child welfare
A study of fidelity to and implementation of a multi-level workforce intervention
Impact of a relationship‐based intervention, Love Notes, on teen pregnancy prevention
Connecting technical assistance to implementation progress in child welfare capacity building efforts
Child welfare jurisdictions implement practices designed to improve child outcomes. Three federally funded Child Welfare Capacity Building Centers provide technical assistance (TA) to jurisdictions to support implementation of practice improvements. The aim of this study was to understand implementation progress among jurisdictions served by the Centers. Analyses indicate (1) amount of TA was positively associated with achievement of implementati…
Addressing secondary traumatic stress, burnout, resilience and turnover in the child welfare workforce
Child Welfare Practice Improvement Efforts
The staff practices and organizational processes of child welfare agencies and courts influence families’ experiences and outcomes. Capacity building services have been delivered to improve organizational performance and practices, but studies of their impact are hampered by a lack of data on specific features of services. This study describes services delivered by the Child Welfare Capacity Building Collaborative during 2017–2019 using data from…
Covid-19 Behavioral Health Mindset Inventory
The COVID-19 Behavioral Health Mindset inventory (CVBHM) was designed to protect consumers and workers by assessing biosafety risk through acceptance of responsibility for the protection of oneself and others, social distancing, and adhering to prevention measures. The 30-item inventory was evaluated in two surveys of 1,455 (Time 1) and 431 respondents (Time 2). The CVBHM has strong internal consistency (T1 α = .90, T2 α = .88), test-retest relia…
Romantic relationship and pregnancy dynamics among adolescent African Americans and refugees living in the United States
Few studies have examined romantic relationship attitudes and behaviors among ethnic or racial minority youth. The purpose of this study was to compare African American (AA) and mostly African refugee adolescents living in a U.S. city on romantic relationship attitudes and behaviors. A baseline questionnaire was given to 1448 adolescents between the ages of 14 and 19 from 2011 to 2014 as part of a larger study on teen pregnancy prevention (Barbee…
How to ensure fidelity in implementing an evidence based teen pregnancy prevention curriculum
Factors affecting turnover rates of public child welfare front line workers
The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of a statewide intervention (BSW level Title IV-E Program) on both the workers’ intent to leave the job and their actual exit from a state administered public child welfare agency. Employees completed an extensive survey including scales assessing individual, team, and organizational variables that might impact turnover. Results show that more Title IV-E graduates stay with the agency than do regu…
Attachment Overcomes Trauma
Impact of Two Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Interventions on Risky Sexual Behavior
Objectives. To test the efficacy of Reducing the Risk (RTR) and Love Notes (LN) on reducing risky sexual behavior among youths yet to experience or cause a pregnancy. Methods. The four dependent variables were ever had sex, condom use, birth control use, and number of sexual partners at 3- and 6-month follow-up in a 3-arm cluster randomized controlled trial of 1448 impoverished youths, aged 14 to 19 years, in 23 community-based organizations in L…
Components of the Solution-Based Casework Child Welfare Practice Model That Predict Positive Child Outcomes
While a number of studies have shown the efficacy of the solution-based casework (SBC) practice model for child welfare (e.g., Antle, Christensen, van Zyl, & Barbee, 2012 Antle, B. F., Christensen, D. N., van Zyl, M. A. & Barbee, A. P. (2012). The impact of the Solution Based Casework (SBC) practice model on federal outcomes in public child welfare. Child Abuse & Neglect, 36, 342–353.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), t…
Disentangling reactions to HIV disclosure
This experiment examined how reactions to HIV disclosure by a male stimulus person are influenced by the discloser's HIV status and sexual orientation as well as the disclosure recipient's gender. Participants (152 male and female college students) disclosed more intimately about themselves (revealing highly personal facts and personal feelings) when the man's HIV test result was positive versus negative. The effects of HIV status disclosure on p…
Indirect support seeking and perceptions of spousal support
Indirect support seeking has been theoretically identified as a support seeking strategy that may backfire and elicit negative responses or decreases in positive support. Moreover, past support responses that are either inadequate or negative have been theoretically linked to the use of indirect support seeking. Yet, no empirical studies have examined the potential reciprocal relation between indirect support seeking and perceived support in inti…
Twenty-Five Years of the Children's Bureau Investment in Social Work Education
One focus of the Children's Bureau over the past 25–30 years has been the provision of funds for social work students at the BSW and MSW levels to specialize in child welfare. Universities have been taking advantage of Title IV-E funds to prepare social work students for public child welfare work. To assess current practices, a survey was sent to all U.S. social work programs to determine how many had a child welfare emphasis, examine how program…
An Exploration of MSW Field Education and Impairment Prevention
This paper examines the types of challenges social work students face and how practicum performance is impacted by them. Secondary data related to 125 social work students in a course in human behavior in the social environment were analyzed. More than one-fourth of students reported a parent with mental health and substance abuse problems. Students' self-reported substance abuse problems (9%), and mental health problems (16%). Sixty-two percent …
Successful adoption and implementation of a comprehensive casework practice model in a public child welfare agency
Healthy relationship education for dating violence prevention among high-risk youth
Cost effectiveness of an integrated service delivery model as measured by worker retention
Training the child welfare workforce in healthy couple relationships
Was it good for you, too?”
First sexual intercourse is considered to be a major life transition, but it is not always a pleasurable experience, especially for females. The major purposes of this research were to examine gender differences in emotional reactions (pleasure, anxiety, and guilt) to first intercourse and to test possible explanations for these gender differences. Based on data collected from 1,659 college students who had had sexual intercourse, we found that m…
What do women want? Facialmetric assessment of multiple motives in the perception of male facial physical attractiveness
The multiple motive hypothesis of physical attractiveness suggests that women are attracted to men whose appearances elicit their nurturant feelings, who appear to possess sexual maturity and dominance characteristics, who seem sociable, approacheable, and of high social status. Those multiple motives may cause people to be attracted to individuals who display an optimal combination of neotenous, mature, and expressive facial features, plus desir…
Effects of Gender Role Expectations on the Social Support Process
Based on a model of interactive coping activation, we review the impact of gender in the giving and receiving of emotion‐ and problem‐focused social support. The research suggests that the female role (emphasizing nurturance and emotional expressiveness) makes it easier for women to activate social support from close relations as well as to provide social support; whereas the male role (emphasizing achievement, autonomy, emotional control) makes …
Support Seeking in Personal Relationships
This paper introduces a new model of interactive support seeking and describes a study derived from it. Task vs relationship type of problem and gender of support seeker were examined for their effect on the selection of same-sex vs opposite-sex friends to provide social support. Male and female undergraduates were asked to vividly imagine each of two task and two relationship problems and to indicate for each problem the friend to whom they woul…
Individual and organizational factors in job retention in Kentucky's child welfare agency
Finding and Keeping Child Welfare Workers
Administrators in public human services are constantly involved in the exhausting challenge of recruiting and training staff in the child welfare arena. This article describes a program that the Commonwealth of Kentucky developed in order to address the recruitment and retention issue. The Public Child Welfare Certification Program is a special multi-university preparation program designed to recruit excellent workers from BSW programs who are pr…
A comprehensive model for child welfare training evaluation
Solution-Based Casework in Child Welfare
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Solution-Based Casework (SBC) model for child welfare practice. Method: Two case review studies were conducted. The first study compared 48 cases from two worker groups differing in degree of training and implementation of the SBC model. The second study compared the outcomes of 100 high-risk cases based on implementation level of the SBC model. Results: These two studies found…
Successful adoption and implementation of a comprehensive casework practice model in a public child welfare agency
Factors affecting turnover rates of public child welfare front line workers
The purpose of the study is to examine the impact of a statewide intervention (BSW level Title IV-E Program) on both the workers’ intent to leave the job and their actual exit from a state administered public child welfare agency. Employees completed an extensive survey including scales assessing individual, team, and organizational variables that might impact turnover. Results show that more Title IV-E graduates stay with the agency than do regu…
Healthy relationship education for dating violence prevention among high-risk youth
Addressing disproportionality and disparity in child welfare
Twenty-Five Years of the Children's Bureau Investment in Social Work Education
One focus of the Children's Bureau over the past 25–30 years has been the provision of funds for social work students at the BSW and MSW levels to specialize in child welfare. Universities have been taking advantage of Title IV-E funds to prepare social work students for public child welfare work. To assess current practices, a survey was sent to all U.S. social work programs to determine how many had a child welfare emphasis, examine how program…
Training the child welfare workforce in healthy couple relationships
The prevention of child maltreatment recidivism through the Solution-Based Casework model of child welfare practice
Prayer as Interpersonal Coping in the Lives of Mothers with HIV
The spirituality of 22 mothers diagnosed with HIV was explored through face-to-face interviews and revealed that 95% of the mothers pray. Active prayers (e.g., talking to God by adoring, thanking, confessing, and supplicating) were more frequently reported than receptive prayers (e.g., quietly listening to God, being open, surrendering). Supplicatory or petitionary prayers for help and health were the most frequent type of prayer, and adoration w…
Components of the Solution-Based Casework Child Welfare Practice Model That Predict Positive Child Outcomes
While a number of studies have shown the efficacy of the solution-based casework (SBC) practice model for child welfare (e.g., Antle, Christensen, van Zyl, & Barbee, 2012 Antle, B. F., Christensen, D. N., van Zyl, M. A. & Barbee, A. P. (2012). The impact of the Solution Based Casework (SBC) practice model on federal outcomes in public child welfare. Child Abuse & Neglect, 36, 342–353.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]), t…
The importance of expanding home visitation services to include strengthening family relationships for the benefit of children
Separate processes in the relation of elation and depression to helping
Cost effectiveness of an integrated service delivery model as measured by worker retention
Understanding the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence Mandatory Reporting Law
Intimate partner violence is a pervasive, complex problem affecting the lives and health of a large percentage of women and children. This report provides data from an evaluation designed to address questions and concerns expressed about possible unintended effects of the mandatory reporting law on victims. Case reviews were completed on 631 adult protective service cases resulting from reports of intimate partner violence. Results indicate that …
Addressing secondary traumatic stress, burnout, resilience and turnover in the child welfare workforce
An Exploration of MSW Field Education and Impairment Prevention
This paper examines the types of challenges social work students face and how practicum performance is impacted by them. Secondary data related to 125 social work students in a course in human behavior in the social environment were analyzed. More than one-fourth of students reported a parent with mental health and substance abuse problems. Students' self-reported substance abuse problems (9%), and mental health problems (16%). Sixty-two percent …
Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours
The consistency of physical attractiveness ratings across cultural groups was examined. In Study 1, recently arrived native Asian and Hispanic students and White Americans rated the attractiveness of Asian, Hispanic, Black, and White photographed women. The mean correlation between groups in attractiveness ratings was r =.93. Asians, Hispanics, and Whites were equally influenced by many facial features, but Asians were less influenced by some sex…
Connecting technical assistance to implementation progress in child welfare capacity building efforts
Child welfare jurisdictions implement practices designed to improve child outcomes. Three federally funded Child Welfare Capacity Building Centers provide technical assistance (TA) to jurisdictions to support implementation of practice improvements. The aim of this study was to understand implementation progress among jurisdictions served by the Centers. Analyses indicate (1) amount of TA was positively associated with achievement of implementati…
Separate processes in the relation of elation and depression to helping
What do women want? Facialmetric assessment of multiple motives in the perception of male facial physical attractiveness
The multiple motive hypothesis of physical attractiveness suggests that women are attracted to men whose appearances elicit their nurturant feelings, who appear to possess sexual maturity and dominance characteristics, who seem sociable, approacheable, and of high social status. Those multiple motives may cause people to be attracted to individuals who display an optimal combination of neotenous, mature, and expressive facial features, plus desir…
Support Seeking in Personal Relationships
This paper introduces a new model of interactive support seeking and describes a study derived from it. Task vs relationship type of problem and gender of support seeker were examined for their effect on the selection of same-sex vs opposite-sex friends to provide social support. Male and female undergraduates were asked to vividly imagine each of two task and two relationship problems and to indicate for each problem the friend to whom they woul…
Differential K-selection versus ecological determinants of race differences in sexual behavior
Advances in Personal Relationships, Volume 2
Effects of Gender Role Expectations on the Social Support Process
Based on a model of interactive coping activation, we review the impact of gender in the giving and receiving of emotion‐ and problem‐focused social support. The research suggests that the female role (emphasizing nurturance and emotional expressiveness) makes it easier for women to activate social support from close relations as well as to provide social support; whereas the male role (emphasizing achievement, autonomy, emotional control) makes …
Was it good for you, too?”
First sexual intercourse is considered to be a major life transition, but it is not always a pleasurable experience, especially for females. The major purposes of this research were to examine gender differences in emotional reactions (pleasure, anxiety, and guilt) to first intercourse and to test possible explanations for these gender differences. Based on data collected from 1,659 college students who had had sexual intercourse, we found that m…
Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours
The consistency of physical attractiveness ratings across cultural groups was examined. In Study 1, recently arrived native Asian and Hispanic students and White Americans rated the attractiveness of Asian, Hispanic, Black, and White photographed women. The mean correlation between groups in attractiveness ratings was r =.93. Asians, Hispanics, and Whites were equally influenced by many facial features, but Asians were less influenced by some sex…
Close Relationships and Social Support in Coping with HIV
Prayer as Interpersonal Coping in the Lives of Mothers with HIV
The spirituality of 22 mothers diagnosed with HIV was explored through face-to-face interviews and revealed that 95% of the mothers pray. Active prayers (e.g., talking to God by adoring, thanking, confessing, and supplicating) were more frequently reported than receptive prayers (e.g., quietly listening to God, being open, surrendering). Supplicatory or petitionary prayers for help and health were the most frequent type of prayer, and adoration w…
Finding and Keeping Child Welfare Workers
Administrators in public human services are constantly involved in the exhausting challenge of recruiting and training staff in the child welfare arena. This article describes a program that the Commonwealth of Kentucky developed in order to address the recruitment and retention issue. The Public Child Welfare Certification Program is a special multi-university preparation program designed to recruit excellent workers from BSW programs who are pr…
Understanding the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence Mandatory Reporting Law
Intimate partner violence is a pervasive, complex problem affecting the lives and health of a large percentage of women and children. This report provides data from an evaluation designed to address questions and concerns expressed about possible unintended effects of the mandatory reporting law on victims. Case reviews were completed on 631 adult protective service cases resulting from reports of intimate partner violence. Results indicate that …
Social allergies in romantic relationships
A social allergy is a reaction of hypersensitive annoyance or disgust to a repeated behavior. Two studies were conducted on the social allergen categories of uncouth habits, inconsiderate acts, intrusive behaviors, and norm violations. Study 1 focused on hypothetical male and female partner behaviors at 2 and 12 months in a dating relationship. Study 2 obtained reports of social allergens performed by the individual and partner in dating couples,…
Solution-Based Casework in Child Welfare
The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Solution-Based Casework (SBC) model for child welfare practice. Method: Two case review studies were conducted. The first study compared 48 cases from two worker groups differing in degree of training and implementation of the SBC model. The second study compared the outcomes of 100 high-risk cases based on implementation level of the SBC model. Results: These two studies found…
A comprehensive model for child welfare training evaluation
Individual and organizational factors in job retention in Kentucky's child welfare agency
Addressing disproportionality and disparity in child welfare
The prevention of child maltreatment recidivism through the Solution-Based Casework model of child welfare practice
Training the child welfare workforce in healthy couple relationships
The importance of expanding home visitation services to include strengthening family relationships for the benefit of children
Successful adoption and implementation of a comprehensive casework practice model in a public child welfare agency
Healthy relationship education for dating violence prevention among high-risk youth
Cost effectiveness of an integrated service delivery model as measured by worker retention
Twenty-Five Years of the Children's Bureau Investment in Social Work Education
One focus of the Children's Bureau over the past 25–30 years has been the provision of funds for social work students at the BSW and MSW levels to specialize in child welfare. Universities have been taking advantage of Title IV-E funds to prepare social work students for public child welfare work. To assess current practices, a survey was sent to all U.S. social work programs to determine how many had a child welfare emphasis, examine how program…
An Exploration of MSW Field Education and Impairment Prevention
This paper examines the types of challenges social work students face and how practicum performance is impacted by them. Secondary data related to 125 social work students in a course in human behavior in the social environment were analyzed. More than one-fourth of students reported a parent with mental health and substance abuse problems. Students' self-reported substance abuse problems (9%), and mental health problems (16%). Sixty-two percent …
Psychology (37 works) · Medicine (26 works) · Political science (19 works) · Welfare (19 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (17 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (12 works) · Psychiatry (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works)